In early November 1975, Ginsberg, Dylan, and Orlovsky visited Kerouac's grave at Edson Cemetery in Lowell, Massachusetts accompanied by a film crew who recorded the event. In this important letter, Ginsberg thanks Marshall Clements for supplying a map used by the crew and for his suggestions of texts for reading at the gravesite and chronicles the event: "we surveyed most sites - and today with Dylan went to [the] grave - He had film crew there - we stood by grave, talked - I pointed out Sam Sampas' stone - we read poems & lines out of Mex[ico] City Blues, then sat down w/ Peter [Orlovsky], Dylan played my harmonium & we improvised a blues, trading words, to Kerouac - then he took out guitar & I improvised a long celestial blues - Jack in the clouds looking down on us w/ a big tear - then we went to the Grotto [illegible] & Dylan talked to Statue of Christ, & lit votive candles & we babbled about God - & then light faded (after many beautiful film scenes shout around the Catholic orphanage & playground overlooking Merrimac) & we came here. Other film crew made many shots of mills... More about Autograph Letter Signed ("Allen"), 1 1/2 pages, 4to, Newport, RI, November 4, 1975, to...

(San Francisco): City Lights, (1972). First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed by Ginsberg on the front inner wrapper: "for Jonathan Williams, long assiduous attention to texts a mutual preoccupation yours and mine for years & years - Survived to Dentdale, Allen Ginsberg 17 Aug 1973" Spine lightly sunned, few foxmarks on edges of textblock, otherwise a fine copy. 12mo, original printed wrappers. More about The Fall of America. Poems of these states 1965-1971